Pat Hedley
3 C’s to Build and Sustain Connections
Pat Hedley
Investor, Advisor, and Author
About Pat
Pat is a growth company advisor and investor with more than three decades of global private equity experience. She adores disruptive technology and dynamic management teams who find new ways to address old challenges. Pat is the author of Meet 100 People: A How-To Guide to the Life Edge Everyone Is Missing, a book about the importance of personal networks.
Pat worked as a managing director at General Atlantic (GA) until January 2015, where she spent nearly 30 years in a variety of roles, including over a decade of direct growth investing. Pat also established GA’s global marketing and human capital strategies, as well as the company’s global talent network.
Pat worked for a Bain Capital-backed healthcare firm before joining GA. She had previously worked at Bain & Company as an associate consultant, advising healthcare clients. Ms. Hedley graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Computer Science and an MBA from Harvard Business School with a focus on entrepreneurship. Ms. Hedley is a native Hungarian speaker.
Ms. Hedley is the current Chairman of Reach the World, a non-profit that promotes global awareness by using technology to connect student travellers with classrooms.
Take home these learnings
2) How to build curiosity in people?
3) What stops people from building connections?
4) What are the parameters to look for before investing?
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Anupam Arun
A CEO's Guide To Failure, Loss, Grief & Death
Anupam Arun
Country Head & SVP at Cvent
Anupam Arun
Anupam Arun is the Country Head & SVP at Cvent. He has a strong and diverse background in Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) covering Voice & Non-Voice Back Office Operations and Shared Services Operations & Controls. Currently, he is a part of the global leadership of SAS market leader in enterprise event management
In his career, he has led multiple lines of business, successfully executing objectives and managing multiple stakeholders in diverse geographies in a matrix environment
Take home these learnings:
2. What are some examples of acceptance?
3. How can you add more acceptance to your life?
4. How acceptance helps you overcome failure, grief, and hurt?
D. K. Shivakumar
Surf through Change without bruises
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D. K. Shivakumar
Group Executive President at Aditya Birla Group
About Shivakumar
D. Shivakumar, or Shiv as he is popularly known, is a Bangalore born leader and a management thinker.
He is currently the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy at Aditya Birla Group. Previously, Shiv was the Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer at PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India. Prior to that, he was CEO for emerging markets at Nokia.
Shiv started his career as a management trainee in the Consumer Products Division at Hindustan Ciba Geigy before shifting to Hindustan Unilever Limited where he spent 19 years in sales, marketing and general management positions. He moved to Philips, India as Chief Executive Officer of the consumer electronics division in 2003.
Shiv joined Nokia in 2006 as the Managing Director, India. Under his management, Nokia built its entire services portfolio, including Nokia Life Tools. He was also instrumental in pushing low-cost mobile devices across rural India; making Nokia a dominant brand in India. He is credited for driving Nokia’s brand from No. 71 to No. 1 in the country. He was instrumental in making Nokia one of the top most trusted brands. Shiv moved as Sr. Vice President, Emerging Markets (India, Middle East, Africa) in 2011. This market accounts for 40% of Nokia’s global business and comprises around 90 countries. His contribution during this time has become case studies at Harvard University, ISB, and other Ivy League Institutes.
In 2013, Shivakumar was appointed as the Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India where he managed brand portfolios across beverages, snacks and nutrition. He has been the driving force in bringing PepsiCo’s nutrition portfolio to the forefront with new launches under the Quaker and Tropicana brands. He is known for being the key driver for portfolio transformation and deepens consumer engagement with flagship brands. Apart from overseeing India operations, he also managed PepsiCo’s franchise business across Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
As of January 2018, Shivakumar has joined Aditya Birla Group as the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy. Aditya Birla Group is one of the largest Indian conglomerates with businesses spread across telecommunications, cement, chemicals, mining, textiles, financial services, retail, and e-commerce, among others, in 36 countries.
Take home these learnings
1) What does it take for the leadership to remain honest?
2) How to traverse through the rough patches of global backlashes?
3) Career decisions that can help you talk to the ecosystem
4) As a leader, how to remain relevant for tomorrow?
Grayson James
Being Attentive To Your Awareness
Grayson James
CEO, Grayson James Consultant
Grayson James
Grayson James is the esteemed CEO and Founder of Grayson James Consultants, LLC, a world-renowned leadership collaboration and performance firm. With over three decades of experience in coaching senior executives and their teams, Grayson is a trusted advisor for organizations seeking true organizational transformation.
Grayson's expertise and thought leadership have been instrumental in designing and delivering highly acclaimed Full Contact® Leadership and Collaboration workshops that help executives and their teams in diverse industries and cultures improve their leadership and business performance. Additionally, Grayson is a Certified Ontological Coach and holds a 6th Dan (degree) Black Belt in Aikido. The cutting-edge approach to language, action and performance he draws upon has been practised at leading universities and Fortune 100 companies around the world.
With deep expertise in mind-body integration, linguistic action, martial arts, conflict resolution, and adult learning, Grayson draws upon a cutting-edge approach to language, action, and performance that has been practised at leading universities and Fortune 100 companies around the world.
Under Grayson's leadership, Grayson James Consultants, LLC has become a leading force in the field of leadership collaboration and performance. Through individual and team coaching, workshops, and in-depth courses, Grayson James Consultants, LLC has helped executives and their teams achieve their full potential, delivering real-world results that have transformed organizations and their leaders.
Take home these learnings:
2. What is Full-Contact Performance?
3. How to introduce Mindfulness to leaders?
4. How we change our Awareness without attention?
5. If not vulnerable, then what?
Tracy Sinclair
The Dynamics of a Coaching Conversation
Tracy Sinclair
Coaching Specialist, Author
Vice-Chair, International Coaching Federation Global Board
About Tracy
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Tracy Sinclair is a corporate executive and board-level coach, as well as a leadership development designer and facilitator, who has worked with a wide range of organizations within the UK and internationally. Drawing on her broad experience in the field across the last two decades, Tracy works with business leaders and executives to support and enhance their professional and personal development.
Tracy uses her extensive knowledge to train coaches and assist managers and leaders in developing their coaching capability. She is a published author and co-authored Becoming a Coach, the Essential ICF Guide published in 2020 which provides a comprehensive guide to coaching for coaches at all levels of skill and experience, the psychology that underpins coaching, and the updated ICF Core Competency Model. Tracy also specializes in working with organizations to support the development of coaching culture and is an expert speaker on these topics.
Take home these learnings
1) The impact of coaching psychology on the success of coaching engagement
2) Nitty-gritty of a coaching mindset in a coaching conversation
3) Silence as an act of communication in a coaching conversation
4) Navigating through the complexity of internal conversation during coaching
5) Prioritizing awareness as a part of coaching presence
Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Flying in Life while you stay on the ground
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Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Managing Director at Perfetti Van Melle India
About Rajesh
A veteran with 25 years of experience in General Management, Sales, and Marketing, Rajesh Ramakrishnan is the Managing Director at Perfetti Van Melle India, the country’s leading confectionery player. Rajesh is responsible for the overall operations of the company for India and Nepal.
An accomplished business leader and a seasoned marketing professional, Rajesh has worked across categories like Personal Care, Household Care, Foods & Beverages, Confectionery, and Media. Under his leadership, Perfetti Van Melle, Bangladesh delivered sustained growth and achieved market leadership in 2016.
Prior to joining Perfetti Van Melle in 2014, he was the Marketing Head at HT Media Limited. He has also held senior positions in diverse corporations including Pepsico, Marico Industries, and Reckitt Benckiser. Post his graduation in Engineering from BITS Pilani, Rajesh pursued his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Rajesh is an award-winning photographer. His work has been featured at Cannes and has also been published in several publications in India and outside. He is also passionate about traveling and has been on expeditions to Everest Base Camp and Kilimanjaro.
Rajesh along with his wife and teenage daughter started an initiative – My Daughter is Precious [MDIP] in March 2015 to raise awareness about gender equality and support the education of the girl child.
Rajesh is also a champion for gender equality and is a mentor for the past 4 years with BD foundation and is part of the BD Think Tank in Delhi NCR.
Take home these learnings
1) What are the values that drive Leadership?
2) Preparing yourself to raise the bar and increase the challenge.
3) Building an organizational culture to invite great minds among millennials.
4) Creating synergies between work and the rest of life.
5) Turning accidents into serendipity with a leap of faith.
6) Staying settled in the midst of noise and chaos.
Gaurav Arora
My encounter with Life
Gaurav Arora
Master Coach, Facilitator and founder of xMonks
About Gaurav Arora
Gaurav has a decade of rich experience in the professional services industry as a Facilitator, Coach and Speaker, with a strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams. As a facilitator, he has been recognized for creating stimulating and interactive learning environments, encouraging participation and individual creativity. As an Executive Coach, he works to dismantle barriers that come up in the workplace for leaders and help them in fulfilling their intent. A storyteller by heart, he leverages various methodologies and technique to put his point across and create the breakthrough.
He founded Inspire Coaching Systems in 2009, now known as xMonks and started a social development initiative “iOwn” in 2016, which is a platform to connect coaches with Social Development Sector to create possibilities and transformation for the change makers and bringing coaching to the grass root level.
Gaurav is an Engineer and a Management Graduate in Marketing. He is a recipient of the “Young HR Professional of the Year 2009-10” by Employer Branding Institute and has been awarded as the 100 top Leadership Coach in 2017. Recently, Gaurav has been honored with the 2019 ICF Young Leader Award. Gaurav is a voracious reader and loves adventure sports. In his free time, he does calligraphy, painting, and reads books.
Take home these learnings
2)The story of Mount Bonell
3)Uncovering the evolution of humans
4)An interaction with hope, faith, and love.
